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I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.